The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (31 Aug 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0241143489
ISBN-13: 978-0241143483
From the back cover:
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook’s son trying to stay a step [...]

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

Paperback: 894 pages Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Language English
ISBN-10: 1841954314
ISBN-13: 978-1841954318
From Amazon.co.uk:
Although it’s billed as “the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,” The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It’s the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. [...]